depute
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Bain served as an advocate depute in the Crown Office from 2002 to 2011, securing the first murder conviction against serial killer Peter Tobin during that time.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
In 2009 she was appointed the principal advocate depute, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this post.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Advocate depute Alan Cameron put it to her that it was "just nonsense" to suggest another child caused such injuries.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
Advocate depute Chris McKenna previously told the court that the 15-year-old girl had spent the evening at a friend's home before walking along Lothian Road to a bus stop.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
I know it is asking a good deal, but would you accompany any one we may depute to go?
From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh
Thirdly, those on more than £60,000 - essentially some heads and deputes - will receive a flat pay rise of £3,000.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2023
Under the terms of the latest offer, pay rises would be capped for those earning above £60,000 - principally some heads and deputes.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2022
The deputes start moving toward him and he starts walking at them again.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
At about 10:40 p.m., deputes in Nash County tried to pull the vehicle over, Stone said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2022
He must be able to feel that the thing which he deputes to each will be as surely and as faithfully done as though done by his own hand.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various
"But media teams deputed inside Jinnah Convention Centre do not know what's happening outside."
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
"So far we have captured 10 leopards," says AK Singh, the forest official deputed of the district.
From BBC ● May 18, 2023
When he failed to do so, his cousin Amy Lowell took on the task: “I like to imagine that the task has been deputed to me in his stead.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
He was usually deputed to pick up the opposing playmaker and the coach Bobby Haarms described him as being "like a kamikaze pilot" as he pursued him, often deep into opposition territory.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013
Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, become them with one half so good a grace as mercy doth.
From Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen by Anonymous
Amid fresh cries of "Shame!" irate M. P.'s exacted a promise that there be no "deputing."
From Time Magazine Archive
John Massingbird possessed a ready hand at packing and arranging; and therefore he preferred doing it himself to deputing it to others.
From Verner's Pride by Mrs. Henry Wood
The young lady was silent, and looked at Miss Sheckleton, as if deputing her to answer, and then looked away.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
But the ancient view, on which instructions are founded, made the deputy the agent of the deputing power, and much French history turns on it.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis
One-half the learned world is amused in tinkering obsolete armour, as Don Quixote did his helmet; deputing it, after a series of catastrophes, to be at last sound and invulnerable.
From The Life of Reason by George Santayana
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